Base station and wireless terminal apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025193775-A1
Application number	US-202218840379-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 28, 2022
Priority date	Feb 28, 2022
Publication date	Jun 12, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A base station of the embodiment includes a first wireless signal processing unit and a link management unit. The link management unit establishes a link with a first wireless terminal apparatus by using a first wireless signal processing unit. The link management unit causes the first wireless signal processing unit to radiate a wireless signal including a trigger frame in a first cycle. The link management unit, in response to a first trigger frame included in a set of the trigger frames radiated in the first cycle, receives first uplink data and information of a first queue delay time of the first uplink data from the first wireless terminal apparatus, and changes a cycle for causing the first wireless signal processing unit to radiate a wireless signal including the trigger frame from a first cycle to a second cycle shorter than the first cycle in a case where the first queue delay time exceeds the first threshold.

First claim

1 . A base station comprising:
a first wireless signal processing circuit; and a processor is configured to establish a link with a first wireless terminal apparatus by using the first wireless signal processing circuit, wherein the processor is further configured to:
cause the first wireless signal processing circuit to radiate a wireless signal including a trigger frame in a first cycle; and
in response to a first trigger frame included in a set of the trigger frames radiated in the first cycle, receive first uplink data and information of a first queue delay time of the first uplink data from the first wireless terminal apparatus, and change the cycle for causing the first wireless signal processing circuit to radiate a wireless signal including the trigger frame from the first cycle to a second cycle shorter than the first cycle in a case where the first queue delay time exceeds a first threshold.

2 . The base station according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is further configured to use a beacon to notify the first wireless terminal apparatus of a cycle for causing the first wireless signal processing circuit to radiate the trigger frame.

3 . The base station according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is further configured to use a second trigger frame to be radiated by the first wireless signal processing circuit after detecting that the first queue delay time exceeds the first threshold to notify the first wireless terminal apparatus of a cycle for causing the first wireless signal processing circuit to radiate a wireless signal including the trigger frame.

4 . The base station according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is further configured to:
establish a link with a second wireless terminal apparatus by using the first wireless signal processing circuit;
generate the trigger frame to be radiated in the first cycle for a wireless terminal apparatus of a first group including the first wireless terminal apparatus and the second wireless terminal apparatus; and
in response to a trigger frame included in the set, receive information of a queue delay time from each of the first wireless terminal apparatus and the second wireless terminal apparatus, and change a cycle for causing the first wireless signal processing circuit to radiate a wireless signal including the trigger frame from the first cycle to a third cycle shorter than the first cycle in a case where the queue delay time exceeds a second threshold.

5 . The base station according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is further configured to:
generate the trigger frame to be radiated in the first cycle for a wireless terminal apparatus of a first group including the first wireless terminal apparatus;
generate a trigger frame to be radiated in a fourth cycle different from the first cycle for a wireless terminal apparatus of a second group; and
in response to a trigger frame included in the set, receive second uplink data and information of a second queue delay time of the second uplink data from the first wireless terminal apparatus, and change allocation of a group to the first wireless terminal apparatus from the first group to the second group in a case where the second queue delay time exceeds a second threshold.

6 . The base station according to claim 5 , further comprising a second wireless signal processing circuit, wherein
the processor is further configured to allocate the first wireless signal processing circuit and the second wireless signal processing circuit to radiation of a wireless signal including the trigger frame corresponding to the first group, and allocate one or more wireless signal processing circuits of the first wireless signal processing circuit and the second wireless signal processing circuit to communication with each of the first wireless terminal apparatus and the second wireless terminal apparatus, and the number of wireless signal processing circuits allocated to the first wireless terminal apparatus is different from the number of wireless signal processing circuits allocated to the second wireless terminal apparatus.

7 . A wireless terminal apparatus comprising:
a wireless signal processing circuit; and a processor is configured to establish a link with a base station using the wireless signal processing circuit, wherein the processor is further configured to
transmit uplink data and information of a queue delay time of the uplink data to the base station using the wireless signal processing circuit on the basis of reception of a trigger frame addressed to the wireless terminal apparatus from the base station by the wireless signal processing circuit.

8 . The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein
the processor is further configured to bring the wireless signal processing circuit into a state capable of receiving a wireless signal from the base station in accordance with a transmission cycle of the trigger frame on the basis of reception of information on the transmission cycle from the base station by the wireless signal processing circuit.

Assignees

• Nippon Telegraph & Telephone

Inventors

• Kishida Akira
• Nagata Kengo
• SHINOHARA Shoko
• Otani Hanae
• Asai Yusuke
• Takatori Yasushi

Classifications

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title

• H04W76/10

  Connection setup · CPC title

• H04W74/006

  in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal · CPC title

• H04W48/12 Primary

  using downlink control channel · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title